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Tasty deal tempts former BBC boss

FORMER BBC chairman Gavyn Davies is backing the expansion of Leon, an upmarket fast-food restaurant co-founded by John Vincent, husband of newsreader Katie Derham, and Henry Dimbleby, son of broadcaster David, writes Matthew Goodman.

Davies’s private-equity firm, Active Capital, is the leading contributor to a £2.8m fundraising to expand the business from its original site in Carnaby Street, central London, to a further three outlets.

Other new backers include Ian Neill, chief executive of Wagamama noodle bars, and James Horler, chief executive of La Tasca, the tapas restaurants group.

Active Capital’s other investments include a stake in Soho House and a holding in Deliverance, the home and office food-delivery firm